Abundance of knowledge does not teach men to be wise.
The best people renounce all for one goal, the eternal fame of mortals; but most people stuff themselves like cattle.
Bigotry is the sacred disease, and self-conceit tells lies.
Things of which there is sight, hearing, apprehension, these I prefer.
Many who have learned from Hesiod the countless names of gods and monsters never understand that night and day are one
War is the father and king of all: some he has made gods, and some men; some slaves and some free.